Thursday, September 6, 2012

Quotation Nightmare

Here at The Gallery of the Absurd, one of the things I have tried to highlight is the sheer ignorance and/or disregarding of the appropriate use of punctuation in advertisements and signs. In fact, the special section of the Gallery, "Don't 'Quote' Me on That," is a good example of what I've been trying to feature since the Gallery's founding in 1996. However, as much as I would like to think that I have seen it all when it comes to inappropriate quotation usage, nothing prepared me for this avalanche of doozies recently posted on the blog Grammarly:

Much thanks to my good friend and maven of grammatical appropriateness, Rebecca Saulsbury, for alerting me to this posting.

Just who is this Gallery guy?

The Gallery of the Absurd is a repository of weird--but real--advertisements, labels, and signs. It began in 1996 as a simple website of scanned images and sarcastic commentary, featuring such specialty pages as "The Annoying J. Crew Model of the Week," "The Arch Deluxe Hate Page," "Clowns Are Scary," and "Jenny McCarthy, Enough Is Enough!" Due to massive audience feedback and contributions, The Gallery quickly grew in popularity, winning the 1997 Webby Award in the "Weird" category. After a brief hiatus, it is back as a blog, so folks can now easily get their daily fix of the warm and creamy goodness that is contemporary marketing.